Five thousand years of wrestling with fat flesh

Were women in the Tang Dynasty afraid of being fat? Absolutely. Emperor Tang Ming, who loved the plump Yang Guifei, when asking Gao Lishi to choose a little girl for his son, also said that "the five people who choose the slender and white women in the world will be given to the prince", you see, it is slender, not fat and round. Even Yang Yuhuan, in the Tang Dynasty books, only said that she had "slight muscles", and Yan Slender Huan Fat was "casually talked about" by Su Dongpo later.

In the early Tang Dynasty where Wang Bo and Luo Binwang lived, women were still thin, Li Bai and Yang Guifei were in the Sheng Tang, the women were only slightly more rich, and in Bai Juyi's Middle Tang, there were some fat noblewomen with double chins and three chins on the portrait. Is reality so exaggerated? Not necessarily, anyway, Bai Juyi hates fat people, and his favorite Ji ren is Zhao Xiaoman, who twists Yang Liu's waist. In the late Tang Dynasty, which was caught in war, the double chins were all converged, and the five generations and ten kingdoms of war and strife naturally could not tolerate fat and beautiful. After this Song Yuan Ming and Qing, beautiful girls had different styles, but they were no longer popular and fat. Looking for it before the Tang Dynasty, the withered and dark Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties were full of paper people.

There is a rich man named Shi Chong, legend has it that love sprinkles a layer of incense powder on the ivory bed, the girls lie on the bed one by one, and whoever is light enough to lie on the powder without leaving a mark will send a hundred pearls. Lighter than the body, the Han Dynasty also had the first skinny beauty Zhao Feiyan, so light that dancing like it would be blown away by the wind, walking like trembling flowers. Han Dynasty girls like to be thin and like to have a thin waist. Speaking of thin waist, the Spring and Autumn Warring States passed down a famous sentence called "The king of Chu has a good thin waist, and there are many hungry people in the country." This word was first from "Mozi", originally said that the king of Chu Ling liked the ministers with thin waists, the courtiers only ate one meal a day for favors, the common people looked at it and learned from it, everyone in the Chu country was yellow and thin, and this story was passed down to become "The king of Chu likes girls with thin waists..." Although it is false, but since the chu country is hungry, girls naturally will not be popular white and fat, not to mention that the "Book of Poetry" has long written "Lady Miao, gentleman is good".

The history of ancient Chinese beauty does not have much space for fat people, but I analyze that fat girls are still better in ancient times. First of all, at that time, the clothes were wide and the sleeves were wide, and the local fat was not obvious after all, and the fat legs would not be discovered for a lifetime! What about thick arms? There are no sleeveless clothes for you to wear in the middle of summer! Chin not pointed? A full round face is a symbol of blessing! The most difficult thing to do is the waist, if your stomach is convex, you can only rely on starvation to lose weight, because ancient girls did not sit up at all to play! Not only did you not sit up, but there were no long-distance runs, walking, aerobics and hot yoga to help you lose weight. The only way is probably to drink Chinese medicine soup to take a Chinese medicine bath, but the effect is difficult to say, the so-called fat comes like a mountain, fat goes like a silk. Obsessed with women's thin waists, it seems to be the eternal standard of human beauty love, not only In China, but also in foreign countries, corsets have been worn for hundreds of years.

In hollywood in the 20th century, although there was a monroe era of breast fat buttocks, the waist circumference standard for girls did not relax a little. In the 1930s and 1950s, the hourglass figure was promoted, and the most dazzling female stars always spread the gossip of removing two ribs for the sake of waist thinness, the most famous being Monroe and Vivien Leigh, although these wind-catching things have been debunked, but today's stars are no longer thrilled to remove ribs for thin waists. More frightening than this, there are eating roundworm eggs in the belly of the insect weight loss method, direct stomach cutting weight loss method, eating garbage vomiting weight loss method, cutting calf muscle slimming method... In contrast, Cinderella's sisters, who cut off half their feet for wearing crystal shoes, are nothing at all.